Creepy BioShock Infinite trailer searches for the floating city of Columbia

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Those of us still damp from our visit to Rapture and who can’t wait to dry off in the sun of BioShock Infinite have had to deal with a few setbacks regarding the release date. Now scheduled to release worldwide on March 26th, we only have to wait two more months until we can explore the sky city of Columbia. Until that day, we’ll have to rely on trailers to satiate our appetites.

Rather than just some standard gameplay trailer set to Gary Jules cover of “Mad World,” Irrational Games wants to whet our appetites with a trailer in the vein of an old-timey unsolved mystery film.

The trailer gives us a little background on the floating city of Columbia where — barring some kind of twist — the majority of the game seems to take place. The founder of Columbia, Zachary Comstock, seems to have worshipped America’s Founding Fathers, almost in a religious kind of way, and influenced the floating city to follow a more extremist path than the United States would’ve preferred. Against the wishes of the United states, the floating city ended the Boxer Rebellion, then subsequently seceded from the States and fled into the sky.

In 1981, a building was found in the Alps that had seemingly fallen out of the sky, and held various Columbian artifacts within. Some of which were simply advanced pieces of technology, while others — such as propaganda — were deemed worrisome.

The trailer, with its Unsolved Mysteries tone, is leagues above a standard gameplay trailer in terms of intrigue. Though you may have been worried that the new installment in the BioShock franchise might not be creepy enough due to the main character attempting to crack wise in previous trailers, or the well-lit environment, this new trailer is doing its best to let us know we should be very unsettled.